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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 3d

☣️ Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola Virus Disease External Situation Report 04 (05 October 2025) ☣️ reliefweb.int/report/democ...
64 cases (53 confirmed and 11 probable), including 43 deaths (32 confirmed, 11 probable) have been reported

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 6d

🌌 Space Weather Alerts Presently Active spaceweather.com www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale... www.swift-sgra.com

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 6d

🌀 Cyclone Alerts Presently Active www.nhc.noaa.gov www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 6d

🔥 Wildfires Canada Alerts Presently Active cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 6d

🇪🇺 Weather Europe Alerts Presently Active www.meteoalarm.org

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 6d

🍁 Weather Canada Alerts Presently Active weather.gc.ca

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 9h

Richard Goody, 102 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Successfully bridged experimental observations with theory that fostered unprecedented advances in our understanding of the Earth’s troposphere-stratosphere coupling, Venus & Mars & of the intricacies of the quantum mechanics of molecular spectra

Memorial Minute for Richard Goody, 102 — Harvard Gazette

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 7, 2025, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Richard Goody was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 9h

Tai Tsun Wu, 90 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
He shifted the main thrust of this research to fundamental problems in physics, he continued for years to be active in solving basic electricity and magnetism problems that arise in antenna theory

Memorial Minute for Tai Tsun Wu, 90 — Harvard Gazette

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 7, 2025, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Tai Tsun Wu was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 9h

A condition more common than asthma or diabetes, yet often ignored news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Women with heavy menstrual bleeding wait five years on average for care. Wyss technology could change that.

HMB is more common than asthma or diabetes, yet often ignored — Harvard Gazette

Women with heavy menstrual bleeding wait five years on average for care. Wyss technology could change that.

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

#STARTALK ⭐ Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches You About the Layers of Our Atmosphere www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOO1...
Neil & Chuck break down the different layers in Earth’s atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere) & what’s going on up there

Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches You About the Layers of Our Atmosphere

YouTube video by StarTalk

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down news.mit.edu/2025/new-sys...
The promoter editing system could be used to fine-tune gene therapy or to more efficiently reprogram cells for therapeutic use.

A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down

MIT engineers designed a control mechanism, known as DIAL, that allows them to establish a desired protein level, or set point, for any synthetic gene circuit.

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress news.mit.edu/2025/ray-kur...
Receiving the Robert A. Muh award, the technologist and author heralded a bright future for AI, breakthroughs in longevity, and more.

Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress

Innovator, futurist, author, and MIT alumnus Ray Kurzweil emphasized his optimism about AI and technological progress in a lecture at MIT while accepting the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

NISAR’s First Radar Images Signal New Capabilities in Global Monitoring www.un-spider.org/news-and-eve...
The NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has captured its first radar images of the Earth’s surface, previewing data that will soon support global monitoring of land, ice & vegetation

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

Assessing the health of the world's long-span bridges from space www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
Spaceborne radar can provide crucial monitoring for the majority of these structures, refining risk profiles and helping authorities better prioritise maintenance

Assessing the health of the world's long-span bridges from space

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

TU Delft & Haskoning Accelerate Innovation in Water Technology & Climate-Resilient Delta Regions www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/tu-d...
By combining disciplines such as water technology, biotechnology & delta technology, the initiative aims to contribute to safe, liveable & climate-resilient deltas

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 10h

#STARTALK ⭐ The Race for the Next Generation of Rockets, with Jeff Thornburg www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuK8...
Neil & Chuck Nice explore the engineering challenges & scientific questions shaping the next era of aerospace with aerospace engineer & CEO of Portal Space Systems, Jeff Thornburg.

The Race for the Next Generation of Rockets, with Jeff Thornburg

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ESO @eso.org · 8d

Under a giant's gaze ⛰️

Some of ALMA's antennas can be seen here in this image of the Chajnantor Plateau, under the silent gaze of an imposing mountain.

Do you know its name and the secret it hides? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2540a/

📷 Y. Villalon/ESO

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The image shows a partly snowy desert, on which some white antennas are distributed, with some gathered together in the middle-left part of the image. In the background a dark mountain arises in front of the blue sky, also with snow on it.

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ESO @eso.org · 11d

ICYMI, our VLT identified an enormous growth spurt in a rogue planet, which is eating up six billion tonnes of gas & dust a second!

The discovery sheds new light on how such planets form.
Discover more in our video 👇

Full story: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2516/

🔭 🧪 #exoplanets #planetsci

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 11h

Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field www.esa.int/Applications...
South Atlantic Anomaly has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 4d

🌎 Let's take a look back at when Cyclone Errol was heading towards the coast of Western Australia on 16 April.

In this @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Sentinel-3 image, the typical pinhole eye – a small, well-defined eye often associated tropical cyclones – is clearly visible.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 23h

Check out the new trailer for @esa.int's proposed Ramses mission! 🍿📽️

Ramses would escort the cruise-ship-sized asteroid Apophis through its safe but exceptionally rare flyby of Earth in 2029: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Ramses: ESA’s mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 21h

Today is International Day for Disaster Reduction. 🌍 Data from #C3S and #CopernicusAtmosphere power smart decision-making and risk management, from early warnings for extreme heat and drought to near real-time monitoring of hazardous air quality impacts, and much more.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

A nor'easter is churning up the East Coast, prompting New Jersey to declare a state of emergency. Another storm has struck farther south with some heavy rain and flooding.

New Jersey declares state of emergency as nor'easter approaches

A nor'easter is churning up the East Coast, prompting New Jersey to declare a state of emergency. Another storm has struck farther south with some heavy rain and flooding.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 10d

🐝✨ The Belfield Bee Hive: At Rosemount Apiary, our hives produce honey, pollinate the heritage apple orchard🍏, and give students and visitors a close look at beekeeping.

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University College Cork @ucc.ie · 1d

UCC research is revealing what the Cork Harbour area looked like pre- and post-Ice Age.

What did Cork Harbour look like 15,000 years ago? New study digs deep to reveal all

Samples showed the area of mudflats around Harper’s Island was once a woodland of willow, alder and oak

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ESO @eso.org · 6d

Take a closer look at dwarf star PDS 70, located 400 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus.

The final shot shows an ALMA image of the system, where #exoplanet PDS 70b and a cloud of debris orbit the central star.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2311/ 🔭

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